Votes for Women 100

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Celebrate the centenary of votes for women with a day of film screenings, performances, talks, walks, children’s craft activities and opportunities to meet local women’s history experts.

We will be screening the film Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film and there will be a performance of the one-act comedy How the Vote was Won, written by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John in 1909 to support the women’s suffrage campaign.

There will also be a contemporary panel discussion on what the vote has done for women and opportunities to find out about doing your own suffrage research. A ‘Voting Booth’ by Dreadnought Southwest will tell stories about local pioneering women.

The Voting Booth installation will be in place at M Shed for a week before it continues on tour.

BSL interpretation will be available throughout the day for the talks and panel discussion.

This is a partnership event between Bristol Central Library, M Shed, University of Bristol, UWE Bristol, The West of England & South Wales Women’s History Network and the Diversity Trust.

With thanks to event supporter: UWE Bristol Regional History Centre. The event has been made possible by the generous support of the Barry Amiel and and Norman Melburn Trust, and Government Equalities Office funding secured in a bid led by Bristol Women’s Voice.

Timetable

10am – 10.55am
– Screening of film Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film (Studio)

11am – 11.25am
– Welcome and introduction to the day by Lucienne Boyce and Prof June Hannam (Studio)

11.30am – 11.55am
– Discussion at the Suffrage display led by Prof June Hannam (People Gallery)– Talk: Dr Sumita Mukherjee (University of Bristol) – Indian ‘Suffragettes’: the Indian women involved in the British suffrage movement campaign

12pm – 12.25pm
– Talk: How to Organise a Revolution – Annie Kenney and the Bristol Suffragettes by Lyndsey Jenkins, University of Oxford